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Education | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that... |
Education | Anne Marsh | At probably four years old AM
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of... |
Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Education | Ruth Fainlight | |
Education | Maria Theresa Kemble | In later life she said she could never enjoy reading Milton
because to her Paradise Lost was a lesson-book for learning English from. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 96 |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 123-4 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 124 |
Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
Education | Frances Power Cobbe | In 1841 FPC
began to educate herself. She studied history, read much of the classics (including all of Milton
's poetry), and worked at astronomy and architecture. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin. 1: 61-3 |
Education | Joanna Baillie | From the age of ten she went to a boarding school in Glasgow which specialised in transforming healthy little hoydens into perfect little ladies. Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
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